Thursday, August 15, 2013

The Black Widow Club: Nine Tales of Obsession and Murder by Hilary Davidson

I
liked reading these short stories of Hilary Davidson. I like her
novels, so it was interesting to see where she came from (so to speak)
as these stories were written primarily before her first novel was
published. Some are award-winners in various venues; all are worth the
read. The format of the book is ebook.

What sets these stories
apart for me is the delicious sense of humor that comes out in the
plots, dilemmas, and results for the characters. This woman has a
marvelous wicked streak in her. I'm not letting her anywhere near my
weed killer!

Also fun was to see some of the things I know this
author loves pop up in some of the stories: travel, old movies, and some
of the stars of the golden age of Hollywood.

I'm not normally a
fan of short stories, but these each caught my interest. And if I
guessed where some might be headed, the journey that the author guided
me along to the outcome was enjoyable, and sometimes took a left hand
turn, when I expected a right.

About Me

Amy Romanczuk is an self-taught pysanky artist and book aficionado living in Charleston, South Carolina. She has been writing pysanky since 1996. Several of Amy’s original design pysanky were accepted to the collection of Kolomyia Museum of Hutsul Folk Art (Kolomyiskyi muzei narodnoho mystetstva Hutsulshchyny) in Ukraine. She has taken the designs and details of her craft to inkwork, paintings, and coloring art. Her works can be found in several galleries and online.
Amy is an officially licensed Wheel of Time™ artist. The Wheel of Time™ Gallery reflects her original pysanky-style folk art on eggshell, paintings, drawings, and coloring art based on Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time™ series. Her coloring book "Patterns of The Wheel: Coloring Art Based on Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time" (Tor; 2016) can be found at bookstores and online.
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